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D UBLE-DECK bus built at he rototype shop of the Hamur. City Transport-associated :FG organisation was handed )ver on Monday to Dr Devlin of :ore lompair Eireann, marking he second phase of a projra me under which the Irish )per tor is to introduce a ''new len rationof psv. In August 197 the German design and ley lopment group completed
in ter-city-type single-decker is t e first of three psv models nte ded for production in the rish Republic.
hile industrial policy pro
le have delayed the planned -npl mentation of manufacture 1 I eland, using jigs and 4'a ings supplied by the Ger"Ian ompany, the development nd onstruction of the protoape isproceeding as planned. he contract also includes a ingl -deck city bus and has 3ce tly been extended to the esi n of a simple utility/ ch olbus body for frontngi ed bus chassis from tan ard model ranges. They tay be built in Ireland by the an dian-based Bombardier lc, f Montreal.
T e piquancy of the situation w ich a double-decker was eve aped in a country which sel makes little use of this dnf guration however undernes the freedom from political Dins raints under which FFG as .een able to work for the ene it of the client. The 73-seat rot type double-decker, now -1 it way to Ireland, is of inte onstruction and has front ld• entre doors and standard 1Eattern seats supplied from ubl n. CIE also made and supied the -staircase of grp conruc ion used in the Hamburgjilt bus. Full air suspension in 12in diameter bellows ad by the Irish Dunlop Co Ltd fit d to the US-made Rockell axles. The transversely ou ted (Canadian-built) GM 6 71 N two-stroke diesel engine 1 2kW drives the vehicle ro gh an Allison V 730
automatic three-speed transmission.
ZF type 8065 ball and nut power steering is fitted Tyre equipment is 11 /70 R 22 5: the boarding step heights (at the front) are 370mm and 280mm.
At the centre door three steps of 370, 210 and 210mm are provided. With a wheelbase of 4.61m the overall length of the vehicle is 9.62m. Cab layout corresponds largely with German VaV standard bus recommendations with which FFG has been associated for almost ten years.
In common with the other prototypes developed for CIE the double-decker has a WV type windscreen. Overall height is 4.4m (14ft 51/2in) and the unladen weight is 10.585kg. Great importance has been attached to noise insulation at the engine compartment and to access doors for easy reach of components and auxiliaries.